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2013 Sundance: From 'Before Midnight' to 'A.C.O.D.'

Sundance Film Festival highlights

Nearly 12,150 feature-length and short films were submitted to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (up 429 from last year), including 2,070 features from the United States. As the festival kicks off Thursday, USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander looks at the highlights among the slate of 119 movies chosen for the 11-day event.

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Sundance Film Festival 2013

'Before Midnight'

Richard Linklater's third chapter of the love story between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy is set in Greece nine years after their last rendezvous.

Lorey Sebastian

Sundance Film Festival 2013

'Sweetwater'

January Jones seeks vigilante justice in the Old West.

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Sundance Film Festival 2013

'Prince Avalanche'

Writer/director David Gordon Green pairs Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in a look at male bonding.

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Sundance Film Festival 2013

'A.C.O.D.'

Amy Poehler and Adam Scott go for laughs as he deals with being an adult child of divorce.

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Sundance Film Festival 2013

'Manhunt'

Greg Barker's documentary follows the hunt for Osama bin Laden that lasted longer than most people knew.